there are two main thrusts of this changeset.

1) return the periodicity of checkpoints back into the code (i.e. make m5 checkpoint n m meaningful again).
2) to do this, i had to much around with being able to repeatedly schedule and SimLoopExitEvent, which led to changes in how exit simloop events are handled to make this easier.

src/arch/alpha/isa/decoder.isa:
src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh:
    modify arg. order for new calling convention of exitSimLoop.
src/cpu/base.cc:
src/sim/main.cc:
src/sim/pseudo_inst.cc:
src/sim/root.cc:
    now, instead of creating a new SimLoopExitEvent, call a wrapper schedExitSimLoop which handles all the default args.
src/sim/sim_events.cc:
src/sim/sim_events.hh:
src/sim/sim_exit.hh:
    add the periodicity of checkpointing back into the code.

    to facilitate this, there are now two wrappers (instead of just overloading exitSimLoop).  exitSimLoop is only for exiting NOW (i.e. at curTick), while schedExitSimLoop schedules and exit event for the future.

--HG--
extra : convert_revision : c61f4bf05517172edd2c83368fd10bb0f0678029

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/sim/sim_events.cc b/src/sim/sim_events.cc
index d9e8bdeaa..2ccc9dad2 100644
--- a/src/sim/sim_events.cc
+++ b/src/sim/sim_events.cc
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ SimLoopExitEvent::process()
 
     // otherwise do nothing... the IsExitEvent flag takes care of
     // exiting the simulation loop and returning this object to Python
+
+    // but if you are doing this on intervals, don't forget to make another
+    if (repeat) {
+        schedule(curTick + repeat);
+    }
 }
 
 
@@ -66,16 +71,20 @@ SimLoopExitEvent::description()
     return "simulation loop exit";
 }
 
-void
-exitSimLoop(Tick when, const std::string &message, int exit_code)
+SimLoopExitEvent *
+schedExitSimLoop(const std::string &message, Tick when, Tick repeat,
+                 EventQueue *q, int exit_code)
 {
-    new SimLoopExitEvent(when, message, exit_code);
+    if (q == NULL)
+        q = &mainEventQueue;
+
+    return new SimLoopExitEvent(q, when, repeat, message, exit_code);
 }
 
 void
 exitSimLoop(const std::string &message, int exit_code)
 {
-    exitSimLoop(curTick, message, exit_code);
+    schedExitSimLoop(message, curTick, 0, NULL, exit_code);
 }
 
 void